Vision or Psychic Prison

Title

Vision or Psychic Prison

Type of resource

Journal Article

Authors

Shahzad, K.,

Summary

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Notes

Morgan (1986) further explains that these preconceived realities become unconscious traps for people that eventually force them to think in certain favoured ways, prevent them to look at the other possible worlds and thus lead them to a psychic prison mentality. These imprisoned mentalities can be observed in organisational decisions making process where narrowed strategic directions result in the failure of organization to adapt to the wider and multiple direction seeker environment.

in order to ensure growth and sustainability organisations need to understand the differences between positive and negative visions (Senge, 1990), as well as the differences between strong and weak visions (Rafferty and Griffin, 2004)

Parik and Neubauer (1993) "unlike a traditional strategic planning approaches a vision is a future to be created and not a forecast". Synder & Graves (1994), vision is a discussable image of the future (target) towards which organisation/leader aims its whole resources and energies (strategies, structures, processes and technologies)

vision as a psychic prison depicts a natural outcome of organisational vision that is a result of unconscious prices yet uncontrollable by nature.

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